Improvement in combined shower and bath cocks



H. 1. BAILEY.

ned Shower and Bath Cock.

gmh No. 167,817.

Patented Sept.2 1,1875.

N. PETERS. PNOTD-UTHOGRAFHEE WASHINGTQN, D .Q

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY J. BAILEY, or PITTSEUEG, -PENNsYLvANIA IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED SHOWER AND BATH cOcIcs.

specification formigpart of' Letters Patent 161,817, dated september 21,1875 application Inea .my 29, 1875. v

` and Bath Cock and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, concise, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, making apart of this specification, in whichlike letters indicating like partsy Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved apparatus. Fig. 2 is an enlarged vertical cross-section through the discharge-noa zle; and Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6 illustrate my improvement in some of the modified forms of its application.

My invention relates particularly to the construction oi' cocks for bath-tub `and'showerbath use. In such cocks heretofore a removable hose and rose have been employed, by the attachment of which to the ordinary discharge-nozzle which supplies water to the bathtub the shower is employed.

By my improvement I provide a double nozzle, by the rotation or inversion of which, or by the turning of a cock therein, the water-supply'is caused to dow from one nozzle only into the tub, or, from the other nozzle only into the rose, for a shower, or may be cut off from both at pleasure. The shower-nozzle is provided with a waste. f

In the drawing, Arepresents an ordinary bath-tub, and R a rose for showering. The ordinary hot and cold water cock is represented at B. The ports of thiscock unite in the usual pipe o, having a discharge-port, c1, preferably on its under side, as shown in Fig. 2. Onto the end of this pipe I attach a double nozzle, b b', so that it may be rotated thereon by the hand of the bather, and so that whichever nozzle may be down its bore will coincide with the discharge port c1, and the bore of the other nozzle will be cut off or closed. The nozzle b, when down, as in Fig. 2, discharges directly into the bath-tub..

If the bather desires a shower, he simply reverses or rotates the double nozzle I) b till the .opposite nozzle b comes below, as in Fig. l, by which operation nozzle b is cut off, and the water, passing by the hose aand rose R, gives the shower desired. When a sufcient showering has been done, the double cock isa-gain' reversed to theJ position shown in Fig.,2, and the water then in the hose a will readily escape through the waste-groove e 'and port e'.

i When the rose Ris not in use it may be suspended out of the way on a hook, It; or, when in use, may be suspended in the proper position by that or like means; or may bes-manip ulated by hand.

' It will thus be seen that I avoid the 'necessity of attaching and detaching the showerhose everytime a shower-bath is desired, and

provide for either kind of a bath, as may be de-v sired, without any necessary change from one to the other, exceptthe rotation or reversal of a cock. Thisl improvementis applicable to coldwater cocks as well as to combined hot and cold water cocks.

In Fig. 3 I have shown the discharge-nozzle y b b permanently aiixed to the pipe c, and with an open port to each; but the water-supply is deected from the tub-nozzle b to the showernozzle b by the rot-ation of a hollow plug or key, g, the port c2 of whichl is, by the rotation, brought opposite to the bore of either nozzle at pleasure. Otherwise the construction and operation are the same as in Figs. 1 and 2.

In Figs. 4 and 5, B represents a hot and cold water cock, sjmilar in itsgeneral construction to that shown in Fig. l, except that the discharge-pipe o extends back toward th'ewall, for greater compactness in construction. The nozzlesbwfbV are'afxed-.toiaras' in Fig. 2, and a rotating hollow plug or key, g', is employed in vlike manner as in Fig. 3 tn turn on the supply to one nozzle and cut it oli' from the other, aS already explained. rlhe attachmentthus made is, in e'ect and mechanically, a two-way cock; and the mechanical difference between forms shown and described is that, in Figs. l and 2,

the outer case or barrel of the cock turns on I the pipe o as a fixed or Astationary key or plug, while in the remaining igures the cock casev or barrel is fixed or stationary, and the plug or key g or g turns therein. Other modiiicataining the hose a, it may be connected to an extensible bracket, m, as shown in Fig. 6, the

bracket m then, taking the place of the hook h fofFig. 1. As an advantageousmeansof making this connection I attach to the stem of' the rose R a ring, n, the eye of whichu slips onto the end of the bracket m, and is secured at any desired point of 4adjustment by means of a.

set-screw, n', or other device of like function. lt will then be obvious that the rose may be adjusted in toward or out from the wall, or lengthwise of the tub; or, by beingrotatedon the bracket, maybe caused to throw a show er laterally or obliquely onto lthe bather. Also, apiston-valve may be used insteadof the plugs gg', with an arrangement of ports adapted thereto. The devices shown in Fig. 6 are not claimed herein, and will constitute the subjectfmatter of a separate application.

I claim as my invention-'- 1. In combination with a bath-tub supplypipe and cock, a bathtub discharge-nozzle, b, a shower-supply nozzle, b",and1acock"or valve l intermediate between the nozzles and `Water` supply pipe, substantially as described, Where- Abythe water-supply may 'be Wholly shut off `l nozzleb b', hosea,` andf rose R, substantially as. described. y i

Intestimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

.HARRYJ BAILEY. Witnesses: i l l W. BAKEWELL, JAMES M. CHRISTY. 

